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Heinrich Himmler - 547 words
Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler was a German
Nazi police official and leader of the
black-shirted Schutzstaffel (SS) troops. He was
also the leader of the Gestapo, otherwise known as
the German secret police. The work that he
performed for Hitler has made Heinrich Himmler one
of the most notorious war criminals of World War
II. Heinrich Himmler was born on October 7, 1900
in Munich. He was the son of a Catholic secondary
school master. Himmler attended the Technical
College in Munich, and also served in World War I
as a clerk in the Eleventh Bavarian Infantry. He
received a diploma in agriculture after the war
and began to join militant rightist organizations.
Himmler joined Hitler in 1919 ...
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Karl Heinrich Marx Was Born On May 5, 1818, In The City Of Trier In - 1,175 words
... Critique of Political Economy. Marx's
"political isolation" ended when he joined the
International Working Men's Association. Although
he was neither the founder nor the leader of this
organization, he "became its leading spirit" and
as the corresponding secretary for Germany, he
attended all meetings. Marx's distinction as a
political figure really came in 1870 with the
Paris Commune. He became an international figure
and his name "became synonymous throughout Europe
with the revolutionary spirit symbolized by the
Paris Commune." An opposition to Marx developed
under the leadership of a Russian revolutionist,
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin. Bakunin was a famed
orator whose speeches one ...
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Self Siddhartha Vs Heinrich - 904 words
Self Siddhartha Vs. Heinrich Finding ones Self
Siddhartha vs. Heinrich As human beings, we
sometimes can not synchronize our minds and souls.
When we are at our success of knowledge or
intellect, we blind our mind with our ambition,
which comes along in reaching the knowledge or
intellect. As a young Brahmin, Siddhartha, has
been taught that Brahmin is the soul of Atman or
the 'Only One' (Chapter 1, page 5). It means that
Brahmin is the highest position beside the
Creator. This intellect alienates Siddhartha's
'Self'. He does not think that his superior's
'Self' will give him salvation. Siddhartha thinks
his 'Self' conquers himself. He wants his 'Self to
die to find wisdom and spiritual know ...
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A Reflection On Paul Hindemith - 1,231 words
A Reflection On Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith was
revolutionary and a musical genius. Many people
who lived around the same time saw him as nothing
more than an untalented noisemaker. Granted, these
people didnt have all of the various forms of
music that we have today, but untalented would not
be a word I would use to describe Paul Hindemith.
He helped begin the last great change in classical
music from the Romantic Era, which was very tonal
and diatonic, to 20th Century Modern Music, which
is extremely atonal. Diatonic means within in the
key. In other words, everything sounds nice and
pretty. There are no weird noises, no funny
pitches. Atonal itself is defined as the avoidance
of the tra ...
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Alternative Cinema - 1,482 words
... own reality. The actors use exaggerated
gestures to externalise the characters emotions.
The audience discovers the characters emotions
without being sucked into the world that the
characters inhabit. This style of acting was seen
as a response to method acting, a style developed
by Stanislavsky between 1910 and 1920 and taken up
by actors such as Marlon Brando and Dustin Hoffman
in modern cinema. German expressionism used the
actors as an extension of the sets, making a
psychological link between the two. The
expressionist movement was clearly an alternative
to the mainstream and was similar in many ways to
Brechts epic theatre and in that respect can be
called alternative cinema. Howe ...
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Atlantis: We Will Never Know - 997 words
Atlantis: We will never know Atlantis Atlantis: We
will never know Fantasy is a tough sell in the
twentieth century. The world has been fully
discovered and fully mapped. Popular media has
effectively minimized the legend and the fantastic
rumor, though to make up for this it has generated
falsities not as lavish but just as interesting.
Satellites have mapped and studied the earth,
leaving only a space frontier that is as yet
unreachable. But standing out is a charming
fantasy the modern world has yet to verify or
condemn: the lost continent of Atlantis. The
father of the modern worlds perception of Atlantis
is Plato (circa 428- circa 347 b.c.). (1) The
Greek philosopher spoke in his works ...
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August Ferdinand Mobius - 712 words
August Ferdinand Mobius August Ferdinand Mbius was
born on November 17, 1790 in Schulpforta, Germany.
(Then called Saxony.) He was the only child of
Johann Heinrich Mobius, a dancing teacher. She was
related to the famous Martin Luther, the man
responsible for writing the document known as the
96 Thesis. Mbius himself was home schooled until
he was thirteen. Showing an avid interest in
mathematics, he went to college in Schulpforta,
Germany in 1803. When Mbius graduated from college
in 1809 he became a student at the university of
Leipzig. Here he started to study law against the
will of his family. However, halfway through his
first year he realized that law did not fit his
interests. He th ...
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Auschwitz - 1,053 words
Auschwitz Auschwitz How could all this have
happened? This is one of the many questions
associated with the Holocaust. The Third Reich of
no doubt on of the worlds largest and most feared
empires. It could have easily overthrown the Roman
Empire and was the most worthy adversary of the
British Empire. The most overwhelming and
terrifying aspect of the Second World War has got
to be the ghettos, concentration camps and of
course the death camps. The camp that stands out
in everybodys mind has got to be Auschwitz. Out of
the 6.8 million killed there were 6000 killed at
Auschwitz a day. What some people may not know is
that Auschwitz was actually three camps fused into
one. The most potent and ...
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Baccio Della Porta - 1,766 words
Baccio Della Porta Even the average person with
little or no background in art may have heard the
names Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, or
Raphael. Not only because they are the most famous
and noteworthy painters, sculptors, draughtsmen,
designers, and inventors of the high renaissance,
but also because of the countless stories and
movies, fact and fiction which included these men
and at least mentioned their importance,
relevance, and influences on today'7s world. Many
children have grown up already knowing these
names, and perhaps that they were artists however
simplistic that may be, after the explosion of the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the late eighties.
Perhaps there is one high ...
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Barrons Book Notes - 5,371 words
BARRON'S BOOK NOTES ERICH MARIA REMARQUE'S ALL
QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT ^^^^^^^^^^ERICH MARIA
REMARQUE: THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES Born Erich Paul
Remark on June 22, 1898, he grew up in a Roman
Catholic family in Osnabruck in the province of
Westphalia, Germany--a city in the northwest part
of what is now West Germany. He adored his mother,
Anna Maria, but was never close to his father,
Peter. The First World War effectively shut him
off from his sisters, Elfriede and Erna. Peter
Remark, descended from a family that fled to
Germany after the French Revolution, earned so
little as a bookbinder that the family had to move
11 times between 1898 and 1912. The family's
poverty drove Remarque as a ...
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Birkenau - 581 words
Birkenau Birkenau I did reasearch on Birkenau, a
concentration camp used in the Holocaust also know
as Auschwitz. I chose this particular topic
because, I thought it would be interesting to
learn about the concentration camps used in the
Holocaust. The two sources i used for my
presentation is an internet site and the encarta
encloypedia. The Nazis established Auschwitz in
April 1940 under the direction of Heinrich
Himmler, chief of two Nazi organizations the Nazi
guards known as the Schutzstaffel , and the secret
police known as the Gestapo. The camp at Auschwitz
originally housed political prisoners from
occupied Poland and from concentration camps
within Germany. Construction of nearby Bi ...
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Bruce Goffs Bavinger House - 2,743 words
... y thing to keep happening, to keep things
vital and alive. So if we stop to think about it,
even if we start a composition, or building, or
piece of music, or whatever we are doing, you
might say, we are tuning in instead of starting,
because it has taken us all our lives, and many
other people's lives before us, to be part of a
continuing thing, before we are able to continue
through into this composition. So we really don't
start it when we start the composition; we don't
really begin then, we begin again and again, as
Gertrude Stein says. We have to think of it as
something continuous and something growing;
something becoming, always becoming. Goff believed
that the sense of surprise ...
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Causes Of World War I - 1,279 words
... ples of Russia had deep sympathy for their
ethnic brothers in Serbia and so offered them
support. Serbia, recognizing Russian defense, felt
they had the power to question their Austrian
rulers who ignored Serbian demands to liberate
their people. Austria, ethnically dissimilar from
the Serbians they governed, looked to a history of
German association to counter the Serbian threat
of Russian involvement. Germany, without need of
an ally, saw the Austrian proposal as a means to
create a stronger Germany, one that could compete
with Europe's historical powers, France and
Britain and the world's up and coming powers, The
United States and Russia. If nothing else, ethnic
differences between o ...
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Construction And Playing - 934 words
Construction and Playing The main parts of the
violin are the front, also called the belly, top,
or soundboard, usually made of well-seasoned
spruce; the back, usually made of well-seasoned
maple; and the ribs, neck, fingerboard, pegbox,
scroll, bridge, tailpiece, and f-holes, or
soundholes (see illustration). The front, back,
and ribs are joined together to form a hollow
sound box. The sound box contains the sound post,
a thin, dowel-like stick of wood wedged inside
underneath the right side of the bridge and
connecting the front and back of the violin; and
the bass-bar, a long strip of wood glued to the
inside of the front under the left side of the
bridge. The sound post and bass-bar are ...
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Controversies Between Church And State - 407 words
Controversies Between Church And State
Controversies Between Church and State During the
Middle Ages, church and state leaders had many
battles. Some who were involved were Holy Roman
Emperor Heinrich IV and Pope Gregory VIII; King II
and Archbishop Thomas Becket; King Philip IV and
Pope Boniface VIII. Their situations were all
related by the fact that they were all
controversies between an emperor or king and the
Catholic church. The Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich
(Henry) IV and Pope Gregory VIIIs struggle was
centered on by investiture. Henry invested many
bishops at his own will even though Gregory had
banned investiture by laity. Henry felt his
investiture of bishops was necessary to the co ...
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Eugenics - 2,088 words
Eugenics Since the end of the 19th century,
eugenics has had a significant role in the
development of Western society. There have been
laws established by its presence and a war fought
to cease its progress. To analyze the philosophy
of and the actions due to eugenics, one must look
at the past and see what contributions eugenics
has made to events in history. One must also look
at the present applications of eugenics and how
they affect the lives of people. With these two
directions, one can see that because it is racist,
encourages immoral actions and is biologically
unsound, eugenics is iniquitous and should be
abolished from modern medical and political
thought. In 1883, Sir Francis Galt ...
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German World Of Disappointment - 1,869 words
German World Of Disappointment "The German World
of Disappointment" From the youngest child to the
oldest man, everyone has experienced the
unpleasant feeling of disappointment. Everyone has
been to a place that was not all that they
anticipated it to be. No one can say that someone
has never somehow let them down. At one point or
another, everyone has been disappointed in
something they have purchased. And what child is
not heart-broken when he learns there is no Santa
Claus? Whether it is in a person, thing, place, or
idea, disappointment can be the most devastating
and hurtful feeling people face. Disappointment is
an experience that the German people, especially,
have had to live through ...
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Gypsies, The Longlost Children Of India, Number About 12 - 1,302 words
... graphy Gypsies, the long-lost children of
India, number about 12 million worldwide. In
Europe, the 8 million Gypsies constitute its
largest minority. Recent films like Tony Gatlif's
Latcho Drom: A Musical History of the Gypsies from
India to Spain (1994) and books like Isabel
Fonseca's Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their
Journey (1996) will help ensure that the Gypsies
do not again get lost -- outside the world's
consciousness. Bury Me Standing -- the title comes
from the Gypsy saying, Bury me standing, I've been
on my knees all my life-- is a compassionate book
about a marginalized and much-maligned people.
Nonetheless, over the past seven centuries, the
Gypsies have made many contr ...
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Hinduism - 1,049 words
... of nothing?". Later, Uddalaka asks Svetaketu
to dissolve salt in water and then asks him to
taste it. Even though the boy cannot see the salt
in the water, he can taste every part of it. Then
Uddalaka compared two experiences to Brahman,
saying that like salt, Brahman is present but
unseen. "This whole world has that as its soul;
that is reality; that is Atman; that art thou,
Svetaketu"(Chandogya Upanishad)(Zimmer 1951
p.360). 6 The Brahman is the Self and Self is the
Brahman, that relationship was described by many
metaphors in the Upanishads'. Here is one of them
from Heinrich Zimmers 'Philosophies of India": "'
Space is enclosed by earthen jars. Just as space
is not carried along wit ...
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